The Lafayette Journal & Courier has an article on the format change coming to AM-1410, WSHY. The line up will apparently include Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, The Dennis Miller Show, and “Bill Bennett’s Morning in America.”
I for one am happy that there is finally a platform available for angry white men in America.
No Boortz?
If you get the chance to listen to progressive talk radio, such as is found at 820-am in Chicago, you’ll find that talk radio in general, right or left, is home for angry folks. I wouldn’t characterize it as all white, though, on either side.
Seems like AM radio is a wasteland of this crap. I suppose someone’s making money, but it’s beyond me how it’s profitable to have Limbaugh on 2 or 3 stations at the same time — which is what it seems like I’m able to pick up during some parts of the day.
Mike is correct, many of the radio people are just pissed off.
However, I am sure it sells. It reminds me of the movie “Private Parts“, about Howard Stern:
Doug…”Seems like AM radio is a wasteland of this crap. I suppose someone’s making money, but it’s beyond me how it’s profitable to have Limbaugh on 2 or 3 stations at the same time — which is what it seems like I’m able to pick up during some parts of the day.”
Hard for you to fathom why not everyone has your tastes in radio is it?
Not at all. What I’m questioning is the redundancy. Maybe the magic is in the business model.
It is in the business model. Saturation works.
ewww.. now I need a shower.. saturated in rightwing radio droppings
They fill a necessary void.
The business model also includes lying and borderline hatespeech. Capitalism rocks!
It also helps if you have an inability to think for yourself…..
It’s a free market thing.
Then there’s this…
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/
Is nobody else still disturbed by the fact that radio airwaves that belong to the public are allowed to be a day long campaign commercial for the Republicans? They have given up characterizing themselves as “conservative” (debatable) and are now just unabashedly partisan. Fortunately most of us see through Straw Man Limbaugh, Ad Hominem Hannity, and O’Spinner. It would just be nice to have a little balance. Dare we ask for a reasonable discussion of real issues?
But if the airways belong to the public that now means that they are up for bid and once obtained, are a private domain and a tool for acquiring private power and wealth. The good old days of ‘public’ meaning ‘for all’ and ‘equal access’ and ‘equity’ have been crushed by the new conservative economic model.NPR and PBS are also under attack in the guise of making them more ‘fair and balanced’ like Fox News.
The current economic meltdown should open some eyes,and the public can successfully demand a more open way of allocating public wealth.
But I’m just an old retired public school teacher,not particularly well-read,although well-traveled, and as I posted once before,I don’t know much more than John McCain about economics.But Doug posted that he may not know more than John McCain either about economics,but he makes insightful economic observations none the less. But that’s the same with any of us.
So who broke all the on-off switches and channel selectors on you guys’ radios and tv’s?
Maybe if you got those fixed, you all could maybe, oh I don’t know, change the freakin’ channel?
I don’t like The View, Keith Olbermann, or Anderson Cooper, either, but I certainly don’t advocate limiting their time on the air, or worse yet eliminating them from the airwaves.
Why is free speech only free speech when you agree with it? Why is it if YOU don’t agree with it, it’s hate speech, lying, and stupidity? How can that irony be lost on your open minds?
I can and do turn off Limbaugh, et al. But, it bears mentioning that radio and television broadcasts are a bit different than cable, Internet, and satellite radio since broadcast bandwidth is much scarcer than those other media. There are huge barriers to entry if you want to broadcast and, once you enter, your license entitles you to a lot of help from the government keeping trespassers off the spectrum you lease.
The Internet, in particular, is entirely different with very low barriers to entry.
I for one am dying for the institution of the ‘Fairness Doctrine”. I will be going after any programming with bias- Limbaugh, Olbermann, Hannity, NPR, Maddow, etc., and get in line for my equal time. If the rules of the game become, ‘you own the broadcast station, but owe equal access to opposing viewpoints’, then I stand to gain the most, because my libertarian views are in opposition to both left and right. Love it! Pragmatism can be rewarding! The ends justify the means! Yay!